Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Best camera deal you (personally) have ever gotten.......
From: rclark01 at comcast.net (Robert Clark)
Date: Fri Feb 16 14:22:27 2007
References: <D2CCF691-490F-4BB0-8115-3DF78CE3BBD4@mac.com><C1FB44D3.44FF9%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000601c751f0$792c8470$6b858d50$@net>

I left a wonderful Yashica G4 (I believe) with a wonderful Carl Zeiss lens 
in a NYC taxi....it fell out of my coat pocket.  Didn't miss it for several 
hours.....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best camera deal you (personally) have ever 
gotten.......


>A Retina IIIC (large C) for $5 at a tag sale.  It was labeled "broken",
> since it wouldn't advance.  I paid the five bucks, went outside, pushed in
> the clutch, advanced the frame counter, and it worked perfectly from that
> time onward.
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
> Who then proceeded to lose his $5 Retina IIIC in a taxi about five years
> later...
>
>
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